overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer — Issue #553: Crash during map render
Author: Bytesunfish
Created: 2011-12-02 00:47:11+00:00
State: open

First and foremost, many thanks to the developers for putting out this product. I've had great experiences with it up until this point.
Unfortunately, I've been wrestling with this issue for about a week to no avail. This issue seems very similar to issue #504. I hope that I'm not wasting your time with a repeat. The server seems to crash midway through the build. It isn't perfectly consistently at any particular point, but it is reliable. When the crash occurs I lose connection to the server (I access through ssh), Minecraft server dies, Apache dies, and every other remotely accessed process. The server is headless so I can't get a proper diagnosis of the extent of the incapacitance in it's current configuration. Below I've included as much relevant information as I can. Please let me know if anyone needs more information

System specs:
Operating system : Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.38-11-server x86_64)
Processor: AMD 4600 Dual Core
Memory: 8GB (4 x 2GB) Corsair XMS2
Swap Partition: 4GB

Minecraft Server and Overviewer Specs:
Map Size: A smidge under 3GB (not very rectangular. Has been explored in branches.)
Starting script: python overviewer.py --settings=settings.py /home/minecraft/minecraft0/Render /var/www/minecraft/
Settings file:
rendermode=['normal','lighting','night','cave','spawn','mineral']
verbose = 1
Mods: None

I'm going to try and do a render with 'top' running. I'll post the final stats after the crash.